In a different report about Carswell earlier this year, the same newspaper said:

It has a troubling history of medical misconduct and sexual abuse of prisoners. Inametti is the eighth man to be convicted of or fired for sexual abuse, including rape, of female prisoners at the facility since 1997. But women there say that sexual abuse is much more rampant than that; the eight cases only became known when women overcame their fears of retribution and reported their attackers.

One of my clients was transferred to Carswell to receive chemotherapy. She did not receive it for one full year after the therapy was prescribed. She died of classic Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a cancer with a low mortality rate – when treated.

There are a string of court cases outstanding against the institution, from those who have survived the Carswell experience and there are families of those who died in custody, who are still fighting for justice, demanding to know the truth.

The catalogue of crimes against female detainees reads like something from a third world country and such an institution would have certainly been closed down or overhauled by now if it existed in Europe.